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The Floyd Radio Show 2023 Kickoff w/Twins Creek Stringband, Wayne Henderson & Friends, Cary Fridley
Venue: Floyd Country Store, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Twin Creeks Stringband, Wayne Henderson
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2023
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:
General Admission: $20.00 Reserved Seating: $25.00

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Description:
The Floyd Country Store presents The Floyd Radio Show 2023 Kickoff on Saturday, October 7, 2023.

Join us for the Season 11 Premiere of The Floyd Radio Show with host Kelley Breiding and special guests Wayne Henderson & Friends, Twin Creeks Stringband and Cary Fridley. Tickets are $20 general admission, $25 reserved seating, for sale online and in the store. Season Passes are available.

The Floyd Radio Show is an old-timey variety show with original radio plays, comedy bits, ads, jingles, music and more, hosted by Kelley Breiding. Celebrating old time and traditional music with people and communities where music is played and enjoyed in its authentic and purest forms. The show is rooted in Floyd, Virginia where a musical and artistic community provides endless inspiration for the show which appears live at the Floyd Country Store 4 times over the 2023-2024 season (October 7th, December 2nd and February 3rd and April 6th).

Wayne Henderson is a musical legend known worldwide for both his lightening fast "pinch picking" guitar style and the beautiful guitars, mandolins, and banjos he crafts in his shop in Rugby, Virginia. His guitar playing has also been enjoyed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of Masters of the Steel-String Guitar, and in seven nations in Asia.

In addition to his reputation as a guitarist, Henderson is a luthier of great renown. He is a recipient of a 1995 National Heritage Award presented by the National Endowment for the Arts. He produces about 20 instruments a year, mostly guitars; he is almost as well-known for the mandolins he has made. Good friend Doc Watson owned a Henderson mandolin. He said, “That Henderson mandolin is as good as any I’ve had my hands on. And that’s saying a lot, because I’ve picked up some good ones.”

Some of Henderson’s instruments are intricately decorated but are most respected for their volume, tone, and resonance. Blues guitarist John Cephas said that Wayne Henderson “is probably the most masterful guitar maker in this whole United States.” There is a waiting list for Henderson’s guitars made up of the famous (and not-so-famous).

Links:

• http://www.waynehenderson.org/
• https://www.facebook.com/Wayne-Henderson-Music-FestivalInc-204058866277453/

Twin Creeks Stringband plays music for dancing playing a strong rhythmic old time sound that goes back many generations.

In the late 1970s, a group of neighbors and friends got together to play the music that had been passed down in the Dry Hill and Ferrum areas of Franklin County. Some of the musicians were falling behind on their timing one day while playing and having some fun, and one spectator commented that he was going to call the group the Dry Hill Draggers.

Banjo player Jimmy Boyd and his brother Billy Boyd started the official Dry Hill Draggers band in 1981. The group flourished, and more than thirty years later, some of the Dry Hill Draggers members formed Twin Creeks Stringband, including Jared Boyd, grandson of Jimmy Boyd, a third generation claw-hammer banjo player; his dad Stacy Boyd on upright bass; Jason Hambrick on guitar and vocals; and Chris Prillaman on fiddle. Twin Creeks Stringband has a particularly driving old-time beat that is irresistible to dancers, and they are popular performers at the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, as well as at the Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Twincreeksoldtime

General admission is $20.00 and $25.00 for reserved seating.

Tickets are for sale online at https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/k3xdg0vxw0 and in-person in the store.

Doors open at 6:00 PM and the show starts at 7:00 PM.

The Floyd Country Store is located at 206 South Locust Street in Floyd, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/Jhn4ndsp/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://www.floydcountrystore.com/event/floyd-radio-show-2023-10-07 or https://www.facebook.com/floydcountrystore or https://www.facebook.com/events/328136872988157 or https://www.instagram.com/thefloydcountrystore/ or call 540-745-4563.